{{Short description|Canadian publisher}} {{Infobox publisher | name = Quattro Books, Inc. | image = | parent = | status = | founded = 2006 | founder = Allan Briesmaster,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seraphimeditions.com/allan-briesmaster.html |title=Allan Briesmaster |access-date=February 18, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218071414/http://www.seraphimeditions.com/allan-briesmaster.html |archive-date=February 18, 2015 }}</ref> Luciano Iacobelli,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seraphimeditions.com/luciano.html |title=Luciano Iacobelli |access-date=February 18, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218072044/http://www.seraphimeditions.com/luciano.html |archive-date=February 18, 2015 }}</ref> John Calabro<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yorku.ca/shortcon/documents/Calabro.pdf|title=John Calabro|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052403/http://www.yorku.ca/shortcon/documents/Calabro.pdf|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> and Beatriz Hausner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/poets_profile_beatriz_hausner|title=Poets in profile: Beatriz Hausner|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150218051905/http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/poets_profile_beatriz_hausner|archive-date=February 18, 2015|access-date=February 18, 2015}}</ref> | successor = | country = Canada | headquarters = Centre for Social Innovation, 2nd floor, 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto | distribution = LitDistCo | keypeople = | publications = Books (poetry, novellas) | topics = | genre = | imprints = Fourfront Editions | revenue = | numemployees = less than 10 | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|http://www.quattrobooks.ca}} }}
'''Quattro Books''' is a Canadian small press based in Toronto, Ontario. Quattro publishes both poetry and novellas by established and emerging Canadian writers.
Quattro Books was founded in 2006 by Allan Briesmaster, John Calabro, Beatriz Hausner and Luciano Iacobelli, who collectively ran the reading series, ''Toronto WordStage,'' from 2006 to 2008. As of 2014, Allan Briesmaster and Luciano Iacobelli became the sole owners of Quattro. John Calabro left the company in order to accept the role of Co-Executive Director of the Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.torontobookfair.ca/ |title=Home |website=torontobookfair.ca}}</ref> which was hosted at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre November 13 to 16, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.quillandquire.com/events/2014/08/20/inspire-toronto-international-book-fair-announces-programming/|title = Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair announces programming|date = 20 August 2014}}</ref>
Quattro Books is known as the "Home of the Novella". The publishing mandate of Quattro Books includes fostering the development and popularity of the literary novella.
In 2014, ''Night Vision'' by Christopher Levenson was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/10/07/governor_generals_literary_award_finalists_include_michael_crummey_thomas_king.html|title=Governor General's Literary Award finalists include Michael Crummey, Thomas King|newspaper=The Toronto Star|date=7 October 2014|last1=Dundas|first1=Deborah}}</ref>
==Ken Klonsky Novella Contest== Quattro Books runs a yearly novella contest called the “Ken Klonsky Novella Contest”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://duotrope.com/listing/7158|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218074610/https://duotrope.com/listing/7158|archive-date=2015-02-18|title=Ken Klonsky Novella Contest}}</ref> Previous winners include Carole Giangrande, Terri Favro, Adam Pottle, Binnie Brennan<ref name="miramichi">{{cite news |last=Fisher |first=James M. |date=20 August 2015 |title=Harbour View by Binnie Brennan |url=https://miramichireader.ca/2015/08/harbour-view-review/ |work=Miramichi Reader |access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref><ref name="quill">{{cite news |last=Donaldson |first=Emily |date=December 2009 |title=Harbour View by Binnie Brennan |url=https://quillandquire.com/review/harbour-view/ |work=Quill & Quire |access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref> among others.
==Notable authors== Authors published by Quattro Books include George Fetherling, Christopher Levenson, Binnie Brennan, Brenda Niskala, Rocco de Giacomo, Carole Giangrande, Sky Gilbert, Michael Wex, Gianna Patriarca, Gale Zoë Garnett, David Silverberg, Susan McCaslin, [https://lisayoung.ca/ Lisa Young] and Jim Christy.
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==External links== * [http://www.quattrobooks.ca Official Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401183213/http://www.quattrobooks.ca/ |date=2011-04-01 }}
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